Greetings, FAU family! The Spring 2021 term is flying by! We hope the semester is going well for all of our faculty, students, and staff. Midterm Grades for full term courses and Final Grades for half-term courses are quickly approaching. […]
In this Canvas release (February 20), LaTeX equations can be entered in any Canvas text field, and MathJax is loaded if Canvas detects an equation image added by delimited LaTeX characters. The Rich Content Editor includes a pretty HTML editor […]
Have you ever had to work remotely due to an emergency? Maybe a large-scale alert caused your campus to be closed off? Or an air conditioning or electrical issue shut down your building? In any case, teachers, students, or staff […]
In this Canvas release (February 15), Gradebook import CSV files ignore reserved name columns as well as hidden and deleted custom columns. External Tools (LTI) For institutions using Commons, favorited Commons items can be imported from Quizzes, Pages, Discussion, Assignments, […]
Greetings FAU Family! Welcome to the third week of the Spring 2020 term. We’d like to take a moment to share this post regarding the use of Badging in Canvas. Badging Badgr is an IMS-certified Open Badging platform. Over 15 million […]
In this Canvas release (January 18), admins can allow users to associate their user profiles with pronouns. The New Gradebook, Course Card Images, Rubric Criterion Range, and Student Context Card feature options will be turned on for all institutions and […]
Spring 2020 is here and the Instructional Technologies team has all you need to hit the ground running with your Canvas courses. Offering workshops, one-on-one appointments, support requests and other resources, we’ll get you on your way to a fruitful […]
The FAU Career Center recently launched a new initiative, Career Center Canvas Assignments. Faculty and staff can now partner with the FAU Career Center to infuse pre-made Career Center assignments into any Canvas course. Whether you teach a first-year seminar […]
In this Canvas release (November 16), the Help Menu includes a new training portal link for admin-, instructor-, and designer-based roles in North America. In the Course Card Dashboard, courses can be removed as favorites from the course card Options […]
Have you ever wanted to sit down and really learn Canvas? Are you in need of an overview of all the elements and features that make Canvas useful? We combined our resources with materials from Instructure to compile a guide […]
In this Canvas release (October 19), the Course Navigation menu has been updated for improved accessibility. *Be sure to check out the Navigation chapter of the screencast below.* For institutions using Canvas Data, admins can create Data Streams in the […]
In this Canvas release (August 17), the Conferences interface (BigBlueButton) supports breakout rooms and closed captioning. Additionally, Conferences is WCAG 2.0 AA Accessible, with some exceptions. In Discussions, the option for students to add file attachments is enabled by default. […]